On behalf of the SIM Executive Board and our Chapter Leaders, we are very pleased to have established an alliance with MISQE that provides benefit to our members as well as the IT profession. SIM is a community of thought leaders with a mission to share experiences and rich intellectual capital that can be applied in our profession. This matches very well with the mission of MISQE to provide in...

Oral Presentations 881 Sponsored Sessions 900 Poster Presentations 902 Index 912 8th World Congress on Itch (WCI) 2015 September 27–29, 2015 at the Nara Kasugano International Forum IRAKA, Nara, Japan N A RA JA PA N 2 015 8th World Co ng re ss o n I t c h

Overselling risk assessment I need to congratulate Roychowdhury & Adshead on a thought-provoking critique. Their arguments struck a chord in exposing the flaws in risk assessment tools and their unjust application in preventative detention; however, I was disappointed that they did not go further. All of these tools, structured clinical judgement included, apply populationderived data to indivi...